Episode 6

Available for 29 days

After moving away from everything they know, the children have to adapt to life on the peninsula. Liam starts going to a school run by Father Joseph; Enda discovers a talent for the fiddle; and Rose befriends a dog. Then their baby brother, Eugene, arrives. Inspired by Maggie O’Farrell’s own family history, this spellbinding story follows a family’s struggle for survival in aftermath of the Great Hunger. On a windswept peninsula in the west of Ireland in 1865, Tomás and his son Liam are working for the Ordnance Survey to map the whole country. The landscape is scarred by deserted villages, entire populations lost to famine. Land is the story of their family’s life, in the years and decades that follow. The bestselling author of Hamnet returns with her tenth novel, a soaring history set in Ireland. Read by Brian Gleeson, best known for his roles in Bad Sisters, Love/Hate, Peaky Blinders and Under Salt Marsh. Music: Veil of Mist by Caroline Dale Reader: Brian Gleeson. Abridger: Sara Davies Production Co-ordinator: Alison Crawford Mixed by Caitlin Gazeley Producers: Fay Lomas and Mary Ward-Lowery